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Lithuania issues manual on what to do if Russia invades

BY SOFREP News Team

If you invade, don’t expect our people to make it easy for you. That was the message Lithuania sent to Russia Friday as it published a manual for its three million citizens on how to defend their homeland in the event of invasion. Since Russia annexed Crimea two years ago, Lithuanians have been on edge. […]

If you invade, don’t expect our people to make it easy for you.

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That was the message Lithuania sent to Russia Friday as it published a manual for its three million citizens on how to defend their homeland in the event of invasion.

Since Russia annexed Crimea two years ago, Lithuanians have been on edge.

Conscription has been restarted and defense spending ramped up, not to mention their now-answered calls for NATO to deploy more troops to the Baltics.

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But even this is not enough to assuage anxiety — the Lithuanian government has Friday issued a 75-page guide on what to do if the country is invaded, entitled “Prepare to survive emergencies and war.”

“Attention needs to be paid to the actions of the neighboring country — Russia,” says the manual.

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“This country does not hesitate to use a military force against its neighbors, and at this moment it basically continues the military aggression against Ukraine.”

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